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Yup. And if you refuse to let them jump off the topic they have a term for that: "Sea lioning," based on a really shitty comic that came out during early GamerGate complaining that GamerGaters wouldn't let them shit out hyperbole and then run away even if it didn't make sense. It is great fun to force them to lose their shit about it, however.
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this explains it pretty well.
There's a Wondermark comic about a woman in an old timey car saying to her (probably) husband, apparently quite loudly, that she could do without sea lions. A wild sea lion then appears and asks what sea lions have ever done to her to warrant this opinion. The sea lion then follows them home, into their bedroom, and into breakfast asking them to have a discussion with the sea lion.

The SJWs have taken this comic to mean that anybody who asks politely for evidence is "Sea lioning" or asking for evidence as a form of trolling. This is one way to take the comic, true. However, the message of the comic is a little more complex. The sea lion only follows them when they don't actually respond in any way to it. Furthermore, this exact sort of thing happens to a lot of people, and it's often perpetrated by people who heavily participate in identity politics. For example, read the comic then change every instance of "sea lion" with "nigger" and the one instance of "marine mammal" to "people". You'll find that this comic is both a scathing critique of "call-out culture" as well as what SJWs say "sea lioning" is.
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Soycast Guy said:
If the US was an empire, who would be trumps successor? Don Jr, Eric, or Barron?

We all know who will be his Augustus…
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Eric who would be ok and then a power struggle so the true lord emperor Barron can gain power in his 30s.
 
Having been in NYC during the 2016 election (including at the Trump victory area in front of the Midtown Hilton, before he officially won the election) it's most shocking to see the difference in how public New Yorkers can be with their support of Trump. If you went around wearing a MAGA hat in NYC at that time, you'd be spit on, have your hat taken, and be generally mistreated. A number of the people at the Trump victory area were...eccentric types. You know, the kind of person to wear an American flag-styled pinstripe suit, a cowboy hat, and aviator shades in the evening. Now there are tens of thousands in Manhattan who feel totally safe going around in Trump gear.

The fellow travelers in the media and politics will pooh-pooh Trump at MSG because it probably won't affect anything electorally. But psychologically, it's very meaningful and shows how much the country has changed due to Trump.
 
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